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having enjoyed many intervals of conscious gladness amongst inno¬ 
cent pleasures. AVe cherish the memory of these things because the 
simple remembrance of past happiness scatters its sweet influences 
on the worn and beaten path of our daily life; it seems to cast its 
halo around us wherever we go, in trial or suffering, and in joy. Tt 
would seem to have a power in mitigating labour, soothing care, and 
giving a keener relish to delight; it touches the heroic springs in our 
nature with a noble sentiment, kindling our hearts, and lifting our 
imaginations, and hovering alike over the couch of health and the 
sick pillow to bless and cheer, to animate and console. Even the 
trials and sorrows of life become less a burden because their weight 
seems to be shared by willing shoulders, and even death itself is 
not so terrible, because, as we approach the confines of that myste¬ 
rious gulf, we are accompanied, even there, by the sweet endearing 
refiection that we have the tender and affectionate solicitude and 
sympathy of many devoted and sincere friends, who seem to say, 
as one of yore, 
“ Yet sorrow not, he softly said, 
As one who sorrows in despair; 
Think of him not as one that’s dead. 
But living where the angels are.” 
I distinctly wish it to be borne in mind that there yet remains 
an immense unexplored field to invite the cultivating efforts of 
the young and scientific veterinary surgeon. I have always 
wished most earnestly to excite the enthusiasm of the young, as 
well as to enlist the co-operation of those more experienced. A 
sentiment, a habit of feeling, once communicated to another mind, 
is gone, it is beyond recall; if it bore the stamp of goodness and 
usefulness it is blessing man, and owmed by heaven. The im.- 
mediate and visible effects may soon be spent, its remote ones who 
shall calculate ! The oak which waves in our forests to-day owns its 
form to the acorn which dropped from its remote ancestor, under 
whose shadow the Druids worshipped. Human life extends beyond 
the threescore years and ten which bounds its visible existence 
here. The spirit is removed into another region, the body crumbles 
into dust, the very name is forgotten upon earth, but living and 
working still is the influence generated by the man. The characters 
of the dead are inwrought into those of the living, the generation 
below the sod formed that which now dwells and acts upon the 
earth, the existing generation is moulding that wdiich is to succeed 
it, and distant posterity will inherit the characteristics which we 
infuse into our children to-day. 
I have not yet touched upon veterinary politics; there is not 
much time to enter into that subject, but I must glance at it. It 
appears there are some persons in Scotland who are still desirous to 
obtain for Edinburgh a separate charter; they intend to apply to 
Parliament again. Let us hope, for the sake and well-being of 
our profession, that the attempt to divide so small a body will 
